“Funeral collapse is the next step in out-of-control pandemic” – Neuroscientist
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Physician and neuroscientist Miguel Nicolelis said Tuesday, March 23rd, in an interview with CNN, that the pandemic of the novel coronavirus in Brazil is out of control and that unless effective measures are taken to curb the spread of the disease, we may experience a funeral collapse.
The state of São Paulo has registered 1,021 deaths from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, totaling 68,623 victims. The number of deaths registered in the last 24 hours is a record since the pandemic began and represents, on average, one death every 85 seconds.
“This clearly shows that the pandemic in São Paulo and in Brazil is out of control, in the context of a hospital collapse that is beginning to migrate rapidly already in different parts of Brazil clearly showing the first indications of a funeral collapse, which is the next step of a pandemic out of control.”
Lockdown defense
Nicolelis gave the example of three countries that have adopted lockdown and are now experiencing a drop in the number of new cases and deaths from the coronavirus.
“Before this lockdown, the UK was registering 1,800 deaths per day, it was one of the epicenters of the pandemic in December 2020. Yesterday, after a more restricted lockdown, it recorded 17 deaths,” he said.
“Vietnam, among the best in handling the pandemic, has fewer than 50 deaths and around 3,000 cases in a pandemic year because it has enforced one of the best lockdowns in the world. New Zealand likewise.”
In order to do as well as the United Kingdom, Brazil would have to be vaccinating 10 times more people than it is now, explained the doctor.
Source: CNN Brasil
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